So it begs the question how two trains ended up on the same piece of track headed toward each other. I expect the passengers and the drivers family would like to know too.
Heading towards eachother? One of them was stationary.
They didn’t head towards each other. One train was stopped and the other went into the back of it. There must have been a signal passed at danger — would assume some kind of brake failure or bizarre driver error.
RAIB will give us more info when the report comes out
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Here’s the initial statement from the RAIB https://www.gov.uk/government/news/collision-between-two-passenger-trains-near-elstow - pirc_lover had it about right
One train developed a fault which caused it to stop. The second one, as seen on its dashcam, drove through a red signal (which it should have stopped at) and into the back of the first. They are still investigating why the second one didn’t stop at the signal and whether that might include brake failure, safety system failure, driver error, and/or any other factors.
